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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning. This makes socializing (publicising?)

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Future of the training department

Clark Quinn

This is a redefinition of learning as performance, incorporating problem-solving, innovation, creativity, design, research, and more. Who is responsible for ensuring this works? In some organizations it’s the information services group, or the knowledge management group. This doesn’t come for free.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

learn from mistakes. In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work.

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Performance Support in 2015

Tony Karrer

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

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Webinar - Skills - Social Media - Best of eLearning Learning - July 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009 Jay Cross response to this month’s big question “In a Learning 2.0 Why a Wiki?

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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

Trends in What L&D Organizations are Doing As a result of these trends, some L&D organizations are looking to social and informal learning. Training Method Trends suggests that social learning tools are beginning to take off. Applications in Learning suggest that this will be scattered. Learning 2.0,

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

One realization is that most of the benefits to business are coming increasingly from so-called knowledge work, work that processes information in productive ways. Thus, you’re learning. A nurturing innovation environment requires explicit skills, ongoing facilitation, leadership and a welcoming culture.